Country's first green train corridor to be inaugurated tomorrow in Tamil Nadu

The corridor will be free from human waste discharge

The Ministry of Railway Minister will tomorrow inaugurate 'First Green Train Corridor namely Rameswaram-Manamadurai' in Tamil Nadu. This corridor will become free from human waste discharge, an initiative part of the Narendra Modi government's flagship Swachh Bharat programme.

The Rameswarm-Manamadurai track is 114 kilometres long. Accordingly,ten passenger trains consisting of 286 coaches moving over this section have been provided with bio-toilets.

After Rameswarm-Manamadurai, Okha-Kanalas Junction (141 km), Porbandar-Wansjaliya (34 km) and Jammu-Katra (78 km) routes would also be taken up for making them free from human waste discharge from trains.

For this, around 35 trains consisting of nearly 1,110 coaches would be further provided with bio toilets and the work is underway. These sections and stations were chosen, because the number of trains originating and terminating at these stations and sections are few, thus making it operationally easier and faster to make them human-discharge free.

The Ministry of Railways has taken up a task of providing human discharge free bio-toilets in all its coaches and the same would be completed by September 2019.